grrrr i cannot sleep

I will be next on her "hit list" because I too sleep better when it's not only cooler, but when their is more darkness as opposed to summer when their is more day light!

lol maggie at least your getting some sleep, i'm not getting any....

-ducks the pillow- I'm another who can only sleep good with cool weather. Hubby won't sleep in bedroom when window is open and it's 40 degrees out. He'll tolerate the fan during the warm months thou.

Well, if it's any consolation, I get extreme insomnia when it's too hot. Also, I've heard that the older one becomes, the less sleep one needs. If that's true--& I do seem to need less, here in my early 60s--then I suppose I must content myself that at least I can actually finish that book before nodding off, or...hey! More time to be here on MyBot!

Hmmm...apropos of all this, just had a thought. I was born in January, & have never done well in the heat (a curse, since I am a born-IN-Texas Texan,; kind of embarrassing never having acclimated), so perhaps this is why I prefer Winter to Summer, since I love sleeping, & find it next to impossible in the triple-digit Summers Texas suffers through.

So, this seems like a good venue to test this theory (I may just go post a discussion if I can't get satisfactory answers here hint hint ). To wit: do you find the temperature of the season in which you were born the most comfortable, or are there January babies who would rather live in the tropics?

Just a random, whimsical question....

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Puddytatt, seriously, try eating some turkey & drinking milk as an evening snack. It has some chemical combo scientists have discovered that helps set off something in your brain that helps you nod off. That, & playing really soft music (I prefer "newage," as Penn of Penn & Teller pronounce "New Age," to rhyme with... ). Maybe you're like me, as well, in that I don't like light at all when I'm trying to sleep. Just a couple of suggestions.

I feel for you, truly. It maddens me when I'm exhausted yet wiiiide awake! Especially when I have something important I must do the next morning, & I know I'll be periodically helplessly crashing in the middle of things when it finally wears off! "Grrr" indeed!


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Maggie i have to travel on Friday and i wanted to leave early in the morning but i know it's gonna be tough, i am going to see my best friend Forestgold, i am staying the weekend with her, what worries me is, i don't want to be sleeping all day when i am there, after all, i am her guest and i am just hoping that i can get a good sleep when i am there so i can spend my days with her, this is what worries me, so just getting out of bed to catch that train is going to be a task, so i may just try and get to bed early on thursday then wake myself up so i can enjoy my weekend....

good nighte!!!try now!

Try Sleep MD. You can get it at Wal Mart. Its about 15 bucks and is made up of different natural herbs. It worked as good as Ambian did for me. Hope that helps

now i am feeling very tired so i know that i will go to sleep but no doubt i will wake when it's dark, i feel so fatigued when that happens....so i am not seeing any daylight at all, it's horrible, i wish i could get something to help me, but i know that it's that chronic atigue sndrome and it just sucks. all i want to do is

isn't it horrible Lori? iit's now 7.53am here and i have not been to bed yet, it's terrible, i will prolly fall asleep any time now and i won't wake till it's dark, i have to do something that turns this mess around, i hate this time of yer, it happens to me every time, i am all over the place and i just need a decent nights sleep where i can go to bed at BED time and wake when it's light, it sucks....

It is horrible, i went to bed at 6pm, & it is now 1 am, & i am upfor the night....& i have a dr.'s appt. first thing in the morning too....it sucks big time.. Lori

Soooooooooo Lori....can't tell me your not having fun over at facebook, are ya?

Lori it's now 4.27pm here and i think i have been awake for about 30 minutes, so there goes another day, what a waste, it's lucky i don't have plans because i would definitely not have done them, i feel so tired today, fatigue has set in and i feel so worn out and tired, i even feel weak today, my arms feel heavy and i am just slonking about the place like i have a ton of weight on me, torture for real, i know the doc will try and give me funny pills so there's no point in going to see him, he will just ply me with them and then it will take me ages to come off them so i would prefer to just sit this one out till the better weather comes...i am definitely not a winter person at all...it's a nightmare

I know exactly what you mean too by the winter weather..I am a summer person for sure, i like staying upall hours of the day & night.With it getting dark earlier it throws our body clock way off....lori

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Back atcha, Lori!

hi blackbriar, i am in the NW of UK, it's now 4.06pm and i have just woke up, it's horrible, it's starting to get dark again now, i managed to get to sleep at stupid o'clock this morning, it wad daylight, usually at around 9am i am up and out of the house, but this time of year i cannot even bring myself to open my eyes, i feel so tired today, the thing is, it's messing with my daily lifestyle, things that need doing are not getting done and it's just so frustrating, by the time i do get things done, it's dinner time and dark, i don't want sleeping pills because i know the affect they can have on a person, so i need to try and wake up early in order to go to bed early, i feel fuzzy and tired right now, even strong coffee doesn't do it, i know that i sudder with SAD at this time of year but it seems to get worse every year, the doc did suggest some mild anti depressants, but i don't want them, i had some a few years ago and it took me ages to come off them, they made me feel really rough, so what i have to do is try and switch my sleeping around before i go insane....it's driving my batty....literally....

i wish i could say that i am going to have an exciting new day, unfortunately i'm not, it sucks big time, if i coud switch my sleeping to night time sleep then i would be fine, but it's so hard when i am accustomed to going to bed when it's light, i will have to try something else i think, lord knows what but i will think of something....

Hi, Forest! If she's like me (& many others), she doesn't like that foggy, groggy mental state many such drugs leave you with the next day, plus, some of the stronger ones are addictive, or otherwise dangerous.

If simple remedies such as the one I mentioned above fail to help, & if she can afford one, I'd say she should go to a sleep specialist, not just a general practitioner.

Just my tuppence...

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hi helen, i tried sleeping pills last time and i got hooked, remember i told you that the doc had prescribed me with "funny pills"? it took me ages to come off them and i ended up in a right mess, what i need to do is just try and switch my sleeping times around and see how it goes, i hope that when i come to see you that i can sleep, because these past few weeks i have been hitting the hay when it gets light, maybe a big bottle of brandy will cure it...LOL...

Yeah! I second that! Let's all hope she doesn't read any of this for at least 8 hours!

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i think this is affectiong alot of people at this time of year, not just us older ones, but the kids too, but i need to try and get back on track with my sleep, it's driving me round the twist....

Excellent post, Smacksman. When we set up "daylight savings time," it had a good reason, but they didn't know back them about circadian rhythms (though I wonder if at least some doctors didn't suspect its existence).

Now that modern society's no longer an agrarian/industrial mix, however, the practice should cease. Currently, instead of "helping," it causes many traffic accidents with fatigued drivers, & other unintended problems. It's time has come & gone.

Maybe someone should start a movement? Write Congress? Just revolt & ignore it? (Imagine the fun that would ensue! )

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sounds like a plan smacksman, i may tru=y that because this lack of sleep is really driving me into the ground, not only can i not sleep, but it's really getting me down, i feel like i have lost my mojo for real....thanks for that advice, i will try that and see what happens, we have already lost an hour already, it's strange what an hour can do, i will be like this till the lighter nights come back, this is why i dread this time of year because i know exactly what happens....is there anywhere in this world where it's daylight 24/7? i could do that...

Strange to tell, but when I lived in the Tropics and the daylight summer/winter time difference was next to nothing (about an hour as I recall) I longed for the long summer evenings of the UK! Hard to please aren't we! Haha

oh i woulod trade places with you at the drop of a hat right now paula, i know that your winter is our summer at this time of year, maybe not so cool but at this time of year, you get alot of sunshine, i would love to be there now seriously, i would do anything to feel the heat on my face and be able to get a good nights sleep, we have put our clocks back one hour and that one hour has made a huge difference to my sleeping patterns, i am sleeping during the day, not getting things done and i am sat there all night wide awake, it is torture i can tell you, it's horrible, i wish i could do something to have a normal sleep and wake up in the mornings feeling refreshed, but it's got a hold on me right now, it's so p*ssing me off....

You poor thing! We don't have daylight saving anymore because after a three year trial the poeple voted against it so our clocks stay put which I think is great because I have always found changing the time quite disruptive.It's strange that you cannot sleep in the cooler weather because usually it is the opposite, people get no sleep when it's very hot and up suffering from heat stress! Here's hoping the situation improves for you...

it's cold here right now so bathing in cold water would put me in complete body shock, so i don't think i will do the cold water thing, but thanks for that suggestion, i will just have to try and change things around, i don't know what i will do but i will think of something....

Oh im sorry, i live in a tropical country.